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Definition of Legitimist
1. n. One who supports legitimate authority; esp., one who believes in hereditary monarchy, as a divine right.
Definition of Legitimist
1. Noun. (historical) A French royalist who believes that the King of France and Navarre must be chosen according to the simple application of the Salic law. ¹
2. Noun. (by extension) Any proponent for the rule of a legitimate sovereign. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Legitimist
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Legitimist
Literary usage of Legitimist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Conversations with M. Thiers, M. Guizot, and Other Distinguished Persons by Nassau William Senior (1878)
"POLITICAL FAITH OF A legitimist. go to sleep. ... legitimist.—It is good for you,
who have an aristocracy of birth and fortune, who have local institutions ..."
2. Journals Kept in France and Italy from 1848 to 1852: With a Sketch of the by Nassau William Senior (1871)
"Mrs. Cul- pepper says that her legitimist friends say that France has not yet
suffered enough; that she must be made to taste still more bitterly the fruits ..."
3. French Civilization in the Nineteenth Century: A Historical Introduction by Albert Léon Guérard (1914)
"Constitutional reconstruction: monarchical majority, but divided— MacMahon—legitimist
Pretender refuses to compromise—Constitution of 1875: provisional and ..."
4. Haydn's Universal Index of Biography from the Creation to the Present Time by Joseph Haydn, James Bertrand Payne (1870)
"... and received the homage of the principal members of the legitimist party.
Not having thought proper to take any active measures to advance his cause, ..."
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